Dr. Matt Gilchrist is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the English Department at Western and he is serving this year as the Director of the Writing Program. He earned his Ph.D. at The… Continue reading →

1) What book was most important to you in high school? Why? In tenth grade we read several books and stories from our anthology that really grabbed me, and I found I liked… Continue reading →

1) What book was most important to you in high school? Why?  I don’t remember the actual title, but it was an anthology of American Literature that I had the third and fourth… Continue reading →

Award Winning Students Each spring, the English Department awards $20,000 in scholarships and fellowships for our graduate and undergraduate students. We are pleased to announce the following students were awarded English scholarships this spring… Continue reading →

1) What book was most important to you in high school? Why?  A Separate Peace by J. Knowles. I loved this book because it illustrated the depth of darkness in the human heart. The fact… Continue reading →

1) What book was most important to you in high school? Why? Not a book per se, but a play and a poem. The poem was a short one that inspired me to… Continue reading →

Abigail Gindlesberger was named the Department of English’s Scholar of the Year for 2020-2021. Abigail is a full-time student on the Macomb campus, and she is particularly focused on creative writing. The Mirror… Continue reading →

It is hard to escape news stories or posts on Twitter and Facebook that compare 2020-2021 to the national divisions that defined the United States in the nineteenth century and culminated in the… Continue reading →

A year ago, I would have been shocked if you had told me that I would be writing the “Letter from the Chair” for The Mirror and the Lamp this spring. But, then again,… Continue reading →